Ironing board



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IRONING BOARD Fild Marsh 50, 1923 2 Shoots-Sheet 2 Patented Sept. 15, 1925. j j

UNETED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HUGO IVI. CARLSON, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

RONING BOARD.

Application :filed March 30, 1923.` Serial No. 628,763.

To @ZZ 107mm t may concern: Figure 4 is a side elevation of one of the Be it known that HUGO M. CAnLsoN, a side walls of the cabinet showing the arcitizen of the United States, residing at rangement of the slot therein.

Chicago, in the county of Cook and State In the drawings wherein for the purpose of Illinois, has invented certain new and of illustration is shown the preferred em- 60 useful Improvements in Ironing` Boards, of bodiment of my invention, the numeral 1 which the following is a specification. designates generally a cabinet which is This invention relates to an ironing board adapted to be set in a suitable recess within cabinet and has for its principal object to the wall and is provided with a hinged door provide a device which is especially adapted 2 for the purposes of closing the cabinet 65 for the purpose of saving room when the when the ironing board is not in use and ironing board is not in use and by its Ineadapted to be swung open when it is dechanical construction can be built into the sired to use the ironing board. Provided wall of a room or otherwise fastened thereto. in the lower portion of each of the sides of Another importanti object of the invention the cabinet 1 are the vertical slots 3. The 70 is to provide an ironing board cabinet of upper ends of these vertical slots 3 terthe above mentioned character, wherein an minate in the llateral extensions 4 as more ironing board may be folded into an in- Clearly shown in Fig. 4of the drawings.

operative position when not in use and easily Adapted to cooperate with these slots 3 brought into an operative position whenever which act as guides are the projections 5. 75

necessary without the necessity of having These projections 5 are carried and extend to set up suitable supports and the like for from the outer end from a supporting memsupporting the ironing board. ber 6 which is adapted .to receive and sup- A still further object of the invention is port the rear end portion of the ironingV to provide an ironing board cabinet of the board 7. The ironing board 7 is secured to 80 above mentioned character, which is simple the supporting member 6 by any suitable` in construction, inexpensive, strong, durable fastening means and is adapted to move and further well adapted for the purposes with the supporting member 6 as will be for which it is designated. hereinafter more fully described.

Another important object of the invention Extending transversely in the cabinet 1 85 is to provide an ironing board cabinet which and adjacent the bottom thereof is the cross will be adapted to house an ironing board bar 8 and this cross bar provides a means and also a sleeve board in a neat and comfor hingedly supporting the lower end of pact manner and also will present an atthe brace 9. It being understood that-the tractive appearance when in its closed posilower end of the brace 9 is hingedly con- 90 tion. nected to the cross bar 8 by the hingeslO.

Other objects and advantages of this in- The upper end of the brace 9 is hingedly vention will become apparent during the connected to the bottom of the ironing board course of the following description. 7 at a point intermediate the ends thereof In the accompanying drawings forming a as shown at 11 in the drawings. 95

part of this specification and in which likev Extending between the sides of the cabinet numerals designate like parts throughout 1 and at a point adjacent the lateral extenthe same sions 4A provided therein is a cross bar 12.

Figure 1 is a front elevation of the iron- This cross bar 1Q, is spaced from the suping board cabinet showing the same in posiporting member 6 when the same is in an 100 tion within a wall and having the door open operative position and is adapted to be posiso as to show the relative arrangement of tioned at the upper end of the vertical slots the ironing board when in a folded position. as shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings for the Figure 2 is a central vertical section of the purposes to be more fully described in the ironing board cabinet showing the ironing following paragraphs.

board and the sleeve board in a folded. po- The supporting member 6 is provided with sition. a notch 13 in the rear face thereof and the Figure 3 is a view similar to Fig. 2 showpurpose of this notch 13 is to provide a ing the ironing board and sleeve board means for receiving the wedge member 14 an extended `and operative position. which may be conveniently attached. to yone 1m 

